Allinea Software and NCSA are enabling software heavily used in industry to run faster and it is creating competitive advantages for some of the nation’s largest companies.

Giles leads the Private Sector Program and economic development initiatives at NCSA. PSP members including Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble and Caterpillar are tapping NCSA’s high-performance computing expertise – 60% of manufacturers in the Fortune 100 have worked with NCSA.

We use Allinea Software’s analysis tools to help clients do what they do, better. We can give them insight into the performance of their code at greater scale – they don’t have HPC systems of this nature in-house, so they can’t know what works,” said Merle Giles, Director of Business and Economic Development at NCSA.

Giles says his team works closely with their clients to help tune their software to exploit large supercomputing resources efficiently. Allinea Software’s tools allow his experts to quickly identify and resolve performance issues on their supercomputers. The tools help to increase performance for software developed by the industrial users themselves and software developed by third parties.

Using Allinea Performance Reports allows Giles’ team to improve performance for his users. “We might not always have access to source code, but through using Allinea Software’s tools we know performance when we see it — and how to achieve it when we don’t,” he says.

Other clients have their developers working closely with NCSA experts and using the Allinea MAP performance profiler to increase the performance of their code.

We’ve also paid really close attention to the commercial code vendors, because better performance will raise all boats. If we can help them to scale better, everyone benefits. The new tools from Allinea Software are helping us to do that,” said Giles.

With its high-profile impact, NCSA’s PSP is now set to play a key role in the new Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute – a public-private partnership formed with $300M of investment from government and industry.

Our tools help optimize that code so that it’s working the hardware to its greatest advantage,” said Rob Rick from Allinea. “They get to use world-class tools in a world-class environment, and get world-class results. That gives them a leg up, a faster time to market.”

In this video from SC14, Mark O’Conner from Allinea demonstrates the company’s new Forge software development suite.

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